(June 22, 2013 at 6:48 pm)Consilius Wrote: God can't always be an anti-war hippy because people will need to be defended from their common threat because we all have the will to survive.
For an all-capable superbeing, God sure has an awful lot of limits he has to work around.
I mean, he could snap his celestial finger and end all conflicts and threats in an instant. He chooses not to. He could have made humans not prone to conflict, not desire bad things. He chose, instead, to create a violent, envious species. You can cite 'free will' here, but that doesn't deflect responsibility, because not only does that imply that we developed sinful behavior all by ourselves, but he made all life forms behave this way. When your god is omni-capable, he is also omni-responsible for everything that happens, good and bad.
Ultimately, the plagues are God's fault because he had virtually infinite methods he could have solved the problem and opted not to choose a non-violent method.